Waves of Change
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"The project was really useful on lots of levels. In Dunfanaghy, it’s about a 60/40, Catholic/Protestant community so it was a good opportunity to get children working together; young people who maybe wouldn’t have done this before. A lot of the young people go to the Catholic or Protestant schools so they wouldn’t get the opportunity to mix. So there was a good cross-community element within the community in Dunfanaghy. And then we were working with two different groups from Belfast and even in Belfast there was good cross-community work. We worked with two groups – one predominantly Protestant and one predominantly Catholic. So a lot of those barriers were broken down and there were lots of long-term friendships developed that are being continued on Facebook and Bebo."
Gabriel DohertyProject Officer, Waves of Change
Waves of Change
The aim of this cross border project is to produce a 20-minute film to a professional standard that celebrates maritime heritage and culture. The film is being created, filmed, produced and edited by young people from three youth groups located in deprived areas of Donegal and Belfast. The young people have received professional training to enable them to research the film and to depict the story in a way that is meaningful to them and others. They have had the opportunity to address challenging issues of social inequality, deprivation and poverty as well as sectarianism and racism as they look at the history of the 18th and 19th century emigrant ships, the Titanic, Harland and Wolff and Clyde links, the decline of the fishing industry and shipping connections.
